Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MR. GETTHINGSDONE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poet's Biography First Line: Phil ossifize is a very big man Last Line: We need mr. Getthingsdone. Subject(s): Activity; World War I; Exercise; First World War | ||||||||
Phil Ossifize is a very big man, And he owns a wonderful brain; He can furnish a perfectly marvellous plan, He is great when he comes to explain; But when we are caught in a very big war, And the war must be speedily won, We have no time for a speculator, We need Mr. Getthingsdone. Putitinprint is a glorious chap, He can write in a masterful way; He has elegant phrases forever on tap, And he always knows what to say; But when guns bellow and soldiers bleed And the war-cloud swallows the sun, Rhetoric isn't the thing that we need, We need Mr. Getthingsdone. Wholeloafornone sees far, far ahead, He is great on the Ultimate Goal, He wants the Ideal and nothing instead, And he owns an inflexible soul; But there isn't much room in the midst of a fight For the dreamy Wholeloafornone; We need the vim and the very present might Of the bold Mr. Getthingsdone. Mr. Getthingsdone wields a very clumsy pen, And his tongue is clumsy too, But he knows his job and he knows his men, And he knows how to put things through. He is not polite, he is not high-brow, And he crudely hates the Hun; But we need him badly and we need him now, We need Mr. Getthingsdone. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...D'ANNUNZIO by ERNEST HEMINGWAY 1915: THE TRENCHES by CONRAD AIKEN TO OUR PRESIDENT by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE HORSES by KATHARINE LEE BATES CHILDREN OF THE WAR by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE U-BOAT CREWS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE RED CROSS NURSE by KATHARINE LEE BATES WAR PROFITS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE UNCHANGEABLE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN A BATTLE SONG (WRITTEN IN THE WORLD WAR) by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS |
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